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Trying to Stop Music Piracy in China
Lorgo_Numputz writes "Salon Magazine has an article on an MP3 crackdown in progress, with an interesting stab at a solution. (And RIAA thinks they have it bad in the U.S.). It's not a "crackdown" in the U.S. sense, with lawyers and courts, but rather an appeal to the public's sense of fairness. But it's an interesting tactic, and whether it works or not, it's certainly a nicer way to deal with online music piracy than the RIAA's.
I think you should check again. Look up communism in the dictionary, and compare it with modern China. Lets see:
communism \Com"mu*nism\, n. [F. communisme, fr. commun common.] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. Note: At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged DictionaryEqualising conditions of life ? no. Eliminating inequality of property ? no. Holding all wealth in common ? no (they don't even have universal state ownership any more). Not that anyone has ever come close to acheiving these goals, but the Chinese aren't even pretending to try any more.